In this situation, I can click yes if I want to switch to the files saved, configuration Sibelius Seven Sounds, or no if I want to use the currently active configuration, General MIDI. (silence) Because General MIDI was the active configuration when I closed the last score, and because I told Sibelius in preferences to let me choose whether to change to the new configuration, Sibelius is asking me what I'd like to do. If I open 0403, Which was originally saved with Sibelius Seven Sounds as it's configuration. Now, right now when I close this score, the active configuration is General MIDI, and that configuration is still active. And then I'm going to do a quick save, so the scores save with that General MIDI configuration. So, in the play tab setup group configuration, I'm going to choose General MIDI. I'm going to select the General MIDI configuration now. Now, within my score, I'm going to go ahead and click okay on preferences again. So, control or command comma, that says let me choose whether to change to the new configuration. I want to also point out the additional setting below that in preferences. Every time Sibelius launches on it's own without a file involved, it will load Sibelius Seven Sounds as it's active configuration. So right now in preferences, I am going to select Sibelius Seven Sounds as Sibelius's preferred configuration, When I save this setting in preferences by clicking okay. To understand this, let's build the situation from the ground up. And third, anytime you close a score, whatever its configuration was, that configuration remains as what Sibelius calls the active configuration. And that information is saved within the score file itself. Second, your scores have their owned saved configuration, whatever configuration you've chosen within the score file to playback the score. Sibelius the application, has a preferred configuration here in preferences. So, there are about three levels of configurations.

If you always want Sibelius using Sibelius Seven Sounds for example, then check the box next to when starting Sibelius, load this playback configuration, and choose Sibelius Seven Sounds as your default configuration.

For example, setting the default playback configuration ensures that your copy of Sibelius will always be loading the same playback configuration every time you launch the application. There is some general settings in the playback page of preferences that affect the playback of all of the scores that you open in Sibelius.

As a reminder, preferences can be opened using the shortcut command comma on mac, or control comma on Windows. Now, let's talk about playback preferences.

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